You can cleanse and purify your skin topically - with normal every day washing or exfoliating. But what most of us don't realize is that through internal cleansing, we can keep our skin fresh, young and healthy well into our later years.
Toxins can affect us from the environment and internally through what we eat. Between these two sources, many people find their skin looking aged before it should, or just looking unhealthy.
External Toxins
Environmental toxins are in the atmosphere such as air pollution. Washing our face is the most common way that we cleanse and purify skin. We are actually washing off the pollution and our own oils. Ever took a cotton pad and brushed it against your face to find it dirty? These toxins can block our pores and add to the oils that cause blemishes, making them worse.
Imagine this.... your skin has a blood capillary and two oil sacs for every hair on your body. This is to bring nourishment and keep your skin moisturized. At the same time it keeps some toxins out and many in. It is said that about a pound of waste is excreted through our skin every day!
We can cleanse and purify our skin not only with washing, but exfoliating. You can even go deeper than this and use a maskwith clay in it to pull toxins deep from your pores. Steams and Saunas open the pores and will help toxins move from your lymphatic system to the surface for removal.
Dry Brushing is another way to exfoliate skin but with the added benefit of directly affecting your lymphatic system. Dry skin brushing is a very powerful way to move toxins by freeing them up so they can move out of your body. So you see that through the skin, we assist the cleansing process and our benefits are more than skin deep.
Our skin is an organ of elimination. Our bodies will take toxins from internal cells and send them to all the organs of elimination including the liver, the lymphatic system and even some into the blood, which in turn brings them closer to the surface. The toxins are then forced out through the pores in our skin. We know that we may cleanse and purify our skin through washing, exfoliating, deep cleansing, or perhaps using a clay mask.
Internal Toxins
What many of us don’t realize is that we can help this process through total body cleansing, or what some call colon cleansing. When we help the body flush and eliminate more through the liver, intestines then colon, less toxins need to get pushed through the skin.
During a colon cleanse, you should be consuming more, high quality nutrition, either with vegetable juicingor the green superfoods. This is turn, will bring an even clearer complexion, sleeker complexion and healthy color to your skin.
As the cycle of cleansing continues, you continue to get healthier digestion. This means that your body can absorb more nutrition. Your body also has to spend less energy fighting internal toxins, because you are eliminating the source of these. In turn, your body can use this extra nutrition you are absorbing and – if you are consuming your natural sources of Vitamins A and C – manufacture more collagen. We all know what this means!
Healthier skin, ageless skin, cleansed and purified skin! The benefits of a cleansing are many. I hope you have learned how creating health through cleansing will cleanse and purify your skin, too!
Answered by
Jitendra
, an ibibo Master,
at
1:49 AM on October 17, 2008
